diff --git a/gwcelery/tasks/avro.py b/gwcelery/tasks/avro.py
index b290ba28b99acd7460214da098d283c8c7cec85b..9628b05940ca14e1f4e34eb3aaad8acb24970622 100644
--- a/gwcelery/tasks/avro.py
+++ b/gwcelery/tasks/avro.py
@@ -92,9 +92,18 @@ def send(self, message):
     """Send an avro alert to a kafka broker
     """
 
+    # Create dictionary following avro schema
     alert_dict = create_alert_dict(message)
 
-    stream = io.BytesIO()
-    fastavro.writer(stream, parsed_schema, alert_dict)
-
-    # TODO Actually send to a kafka broker
+    # Write avro packet to memory
+    avro_stream = io.BytesIO()
+    fastavro.writer(avro_stream, parsed_schema, alert_dict)
+
+    # Publish to Kafka producer
+    for producer in app.steps['consumer']:
+        # TODO Finalize topic(?)
+        producer.produce(
+            topic='StandinKafkaTopic',
+            value=avro_stream.getvalue(),
+            value_schema=parsed_schema
+        )